ORISE provides expertise in the medical management of radiation incidents through the operation of the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site
(REAC/TS), a dedicated DOE facility located in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

The University Radioactive Ion Beam (UNIRIB) consortium consists of eight member universities that partner to perform basic nuclear physics research using the fast-growing technique of radioactive ion beams.

Through the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, ORISE works closely with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to perform research focused on air quality, contaminant dispersion and climate.

Through the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, ORISE works closely with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to perform air quality, contaminant dispersion and climate research.

Therefore, the ORISE team built a project tracking and management system with off-the-shelf products—an immediate cost and time-saver.

In a recent example involving the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), ORISE conducted an annual merit review—a complete and objective examination of DOE funded projects in progress by independent reviewers, based on predetermined criteria, who are knowledgeable in the project field—that included more than 500 review projects and 300 reviewers from around the world.

Once identified and scheduled, the reviewers were assigned to a project based on their areas of expertise, per the customer’s request, but project categories were very specific and finding reviewers that matched the specific categories proved challenging, at best, for ORISE.

To make the scheduling and matching of reviewers to project categories much easier, ORISE established a SharePoint, Web-based collaboration environment.

As a result, ORISE was able to not only customize the site to meet customer requirements but also provided customers with access to the site where they could gather more details on the reviewers, approve them and track the projects themselves.

Using SharePoint, more than 3,400 reviewer assignments have been successfully made and approved electronically from locations around the world.